Spoonwort vs. Wort — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Spoonwort and Wort
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Spoonwort
Scurvy-grass (Cochlearia)
Wort
Wort () is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky. Wort contains the sugars, the most important being maltose and maltotriose, that will be fermented by the brewing yeast to produce alcohol.
Spoonwort
Scurvy grass.
Wort
A plant. Often used in combination
Liverwort.
Milkwort.
Wort
An infusion of malt that is fermented to make beer.
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Wort
Now chiefly as the second element in the names of plants: a plant used for food or medicine.
Wort
Chiefly in the plural: a plant of the genus Brassica used as a vegetable; a brassica; especially, a cabbage (Brassica oleracea).
Wort
A non-vascular plant growing on land from the division Anthocerotophyta (the hornworts) or Marchantiophyta (liverworts); an anthocerotophyte or marchantiophyte.
Wort
Also worts: a liquid extracted from mash (ground malt or some other grain soaked in hot water), which is then fermented to make beer or fermented and distilled to make a malt liquor such as whisky.
Wort
A plant of any kind.
Wort
Cabbages.
Wort
An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.
Wort
Usually used in combination: `liverwort'; `milkwort'; `whorlywort'
Wort
Unfermented or fermenting malt
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